Kansas biologists find ‘super rare’ threatened species in the mouth of a hungry toad KSNT (RK).
11 Extraordinary Sharks That Live in Deep Sea Waters ZME Science
How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt FT. Commentary: Private Equity Puts Debt Everywhere Matt Levine, Bloomberg.
Private Equity Gets Creative to Buy Time for More Gains. Clients Say Pay Me Now Bloomberg
Climate
High Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Danger Arctic News
What It Feels Like When You Have Heatstroke Outside
Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere Phys.org
Syndemics
2024 Paris Olympics hit by early COVID cases, but organizers don’t seem worried by risk of major outbreak CBS. Commentary:
Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!
Four and a half years into this pandemic and the only preventive measure recommended at the already COVID-ridden Olympics is HAND SANITISER.
Hand sanitiser will not stop an airborne virus. https://t.co/8TWKi6bHkG— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) July 24, 2024
More commentary:
Officials Ponder Combining Olympics And Paralympics Simply By Infecting All The Athletes Repeatedly With Covid. pic.twitter.com/oyBuu7MkXy
— The Vertlartnic (@TheVertlartnic) July 24, 2024
China?
China aims to step up Russian energy cooperation despite US sanctions calls South China Morning Post
Sold A False Dream: Inside China’s Derelict Housing Developments China Spotlight
Why Is Bangladesh On The Boil? Free Press Journal
Commentary: Bangladeshi students revolt, but wider movement against the government looks unlikely Channel News Asia
Myanmar
Myanmar Is Running Out of Gas. What Happens Next? The Diplomat
Mourning James C. Scott, a Sterling anarchist and friend of Myanmar Frontier Myanmar
Espionage and Sabotage: The Truth About the Ninja Nippon.com
The Great Game
U.S. military representative will serve as an advisor in Armenia’s Ministry of Defense JAM News
Syraqistan
Highlights: Netanyahu addresses Congress (video) Politico. Commentary:
🧵 Thread – Standing ovation Tracker for Bibi Netanyahu’s address to Congress:
One
— Andy Powlas (@andypowlas) July 24, 2024
Total: 58.
Netanyahu urges unity, but stirs a firestorm inside and outside Capitol The Hill. Commentary:
Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation in the House Chamber today was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States.
Many of us who love Israel spent time today listening to Israeli…
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 24, 2024
More Commentary:
Just so we’re clear, Netanyahu has lost so many people that he is addressing just a fraction of Congress.
When this happens, they fill the seats with non-members, like what they do at award ceremonies, in order to project the appearance of full attendance and support. https://t.co/CIboKUrkBq
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 24, 2024
Watergate Hotel sanitized after maggots released to protest Netanyahu stay The Hill. Commentary (2020):
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Did you know that Benjamin Netanyahu actually brings suitcases full of dirty laundry for government staff to clean?
That's one way to assert your dominance I guess… pic.twitter.com/6IU5dTZnNg
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) July 23, 2024
* * * How Israel is shrinking Gaza’s ‘safe zones’ Al Jazeera
‘Soldiers! Soldiers! Soldiers!’ The Floutist
Gaza as a Blurred, Empty World in an Israeli Reservist’s Paintings Haaretz
* * * An Untold History of Joe Biden’s Support for Israel Branko Marcetic, In These Times
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine War Map Shows Two Battalions at Risk of Encirclement: ‘Alarming’ Newsweek
SITREP 7/24/24: General Syrsky Shocks With News of Russian Armor and Troop Surges Simplicius the Thinker
* * * Fitch downgrades Ukraine’s rating to ‘C’ Anadolu Agency
EU discusses indefinite freezing of Russian assets to secure G7 loan for Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda
Ukrainians strip out Tesla batteries to keep the lights on FT
* * * War in Ukraine: Can China use its clout to play peacemaker? Deutsche Welle
What one Moscow square says about Russia’s worsening relations with West BBC
Winds of Change: Ukrainian Politics Reacts to the US Electoral Drama The Wilson Center
* * * Rheinmetall officially receives order from Ukraine to build ammunition factory Ukrainska Pravda
* * * NATO Grapples With a New Long Game Against Putin Foreign Policy
The NATO Declaration and the Deadly Strategy of Neoconservatism Jeffrey Sachs, Common Dreams
Biden Administration
FAA Launches Audit of Southwest Airlines After Close Calls WSJ
2024
Joe Biden says he is ‘passing the torch’ to save US democracy FT
Biden sidesteps hard truths in first speech since quitting race BBC
The Wreckage Biden Leaves Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News
Our Famously Free Press
When mainstream media swallows consultancy garbage Terry’s Substack
Digital Watch
CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence The Register
* * * AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data Nature. From the Abstract: “We find that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, in which tails of the original content distribution disappear. We refer to this effect as ‘model collapse’ and show that it can occur in LLMs as well as in variational autoencoders (VAEs) and Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). We build theoretical intuition behind the phenomenon and portray its ubiquity among all learned generative models. We demonstrate that it must be taken seriously if we are to sustain the benefits of training from large-scale data scraped from the web.” Autocoprophagy, as I have said since the beginning of the AI bubble.
OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn – report Data Center Dynamics
VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups Tech Crunch
Boeing
Boeing Gets Flurry of Orders at International Airshow WSJ
Boeing not yet facing clear skies in China even as deliveries resume, executive visits South China Morning Post
US files details of Boeing’s plea deal related to plane crashes. It’s in the hands of a judge now AP
The Final Frontier
Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds Space.com
Supply Chain
Two Swiss lawyers take aim at flags of convenience in new book Splash 247
Groves of Academe
What’s a University Worth? (excerpt) Doomberg
Imperial Collapse Watch
Loss of empire, loss of lucidity Pearls and Irritations
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion
Amazon’s foray into ultra-fast fashion will be a seismic shift in e-commerce Fashion United
Class Warfare
Americans are falling behind on their car payments FOX
39% of Americans worry they can’t pay the bills CNN
The era of privatisation is nearly over. But cleaning up the mess left behind will take years Guardian
At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence (transcript) The Big Picture
US markets suffer worst day since 2022 as Tesla and AI stocks fall FT
Antidote du jour (Biscutella):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Trump’s too uncouth for the empire
They prefer war sounds sweet, like a church choir
The difference, I guess
Is Trump had a near miss—
He’s now been on the wrong end of gunfire
An old man with orange on his face
Overdue for Death’s gentle embrace
Trump won’t die from a bullet
But a KFC pullet—
That will be his deep-fried coop de grace
Trump is five-foot-ten two-eighty-five pounds
He devours Big Macs, making animal sounds
On his stone epitaph
He will leave us a laugh—
‘Stay one step ahead of the hounds’
Some are intrigued by his wealth
Some by his cunning and stealth
Big Macs and fried chicken
And his fat finger lickin’
Leaves me oh so concerned for his health
JD Vance sees his chance through succession
‘A heartbeat away’ is the expression
Donald lying in state
Well-coiffed and sedate
Means two terms reward JD’s discretion
Thank you.
It is probably a mistake to credit D Party leaders with this much foresight, but it’s an amusing thought that JRB’s infirmities might actually turn out to be politically useful to the Party, inasmuch as they have elicited, prior to JRB’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, a significant amount of negative commentary from DJT which can now be turned against him, since he will be older than JRB now is by the end of a 2025-2029 term.
Perhaps this is a subtext of the apparent irritation that JRB is no longer the top-of-ticket punching bag. “Oh sh!t! Now I’m the oldest candidate in history!”
Probably they don’t think this far ahead and it’s simply a case of moldy lemons turning out to make surprisingly palatable lemonade.
I wonder whether the D Party powers will pressure JRB into taking a comprehensive cognitive assessment (calling DJT’s bluff) and use that as grounds to install Harris as POTUS.
I do think that this kind of assessment is a good idea for POTUS candidates. Perhaps a new normal is in view.
Re What one Moscow square says about Russia’s worsening relations with West BBC
I always have to laugh when I see any post or article from the chief BBC Moscow propagandist Rosenberg. He simply cannot help himself from insisting on putting some anti-Russia, anti-Putin spin on everything. In this instance he mentions Moscow’s Kiev Railway Station, and he has to call it ‘Kyiv Railway Station’. Which it absolutely will not be called in Russia. Bless him. He gets more ridiculous by the day.
Bagdad Bob benefited from a quick collapse.
Clowns like Rosenberg have to keep at it year after year.
Bobs still around, he’s 83. Here’s to long life on the losing side!
As a child studying Ukrainian, when we were writing in English we wrote Kiev and pronounced it in the Anglicized version of the Russian pronunciation, on the basis that this is how it works in English. Kyiv popped up out of nowhere a few years ago, along with journalists mangling that pronunciation just as badly as they mangled Kiev previously.
It’s a sign of a failing political system when the professional busybodies of that country decide it should be their priority to change how English is spoken. “The Ukraine” versus “Ukraine” being another example. So now I make a point of saying “the Ukraine” in front of these people.
Best part of the whole thing is that it’s just different transliteration: it’s really hard to hear the difference in pronunciation.
>>>>Joe Biden says he is ‘passing the torch’ to save US democracy FT
I totally forgot that Biden campaigned for singe-payer health care in the 2020 primaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/
I wonder if part of the DNC consultancy blob realizes that they bait-switched voters so many times on policy that that only have the “save Democracy” and a few culture war cards left.
…so Kamala isn’t even going to bother feigning interest in health care.
One of Fox News’s attacks on Harris is that she co-sponsored a single payer bill back in the day. I’d count that in her favor except oops, it was apparently performative.
The saving Democracy thing is evermore threadbare. At some point even the most rah rah not in the inner circle is going to recognize that the Democratic Party actively limits voter choice.
They are saving rights of minors to get sex change, abortion to term, and right to censor/gaslight anybody that don’t agree.
The saving “ our “democracy is more like what Mao’s Red Guard might force.
Your link says he “prefers a public option.” That isn’t Medicare for All.
As we learned in 2009 the “public option” is a proposal to deflect attention from M4A and to preserve private for-profit insurance.
In 2020 when asked if he would sign a M4A bill if it somehow got through Congress his response was blah-blah-blah reasons why that was unlikely.
Link
It was worse than that. Back in 2020, he all but said that he would veto a M4A bill if it ever “by some miracle” came to his desk. See: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/biden-says-he-wouldd-veto-medicare-for-all-as-coronavirus-focuses-attention-on-health.html – Pepperidge Farm remembers…
In fact, I personally seem to recollect he actually said he’d veto it in one of the debates, but that kind of a quote requires more effort to chase down. And notice in that CNBC article his opposition is built around the “cost”, as in, quote, “where are you going to find $35 trillion”. Which was the main attack line of mainstream Democrats, “how’re you going to pay for it”, and that one was definitely used in the primary debates. Generating endless rebuttals on “progressive” Youtube channels, for all the good that did. It’s a mindbogglingly stupid attack line, of course, but certainly worked on the PMCs in the room.
Point is, Biden, Klobuchar, all those “mainstream” candidates, they never even pretended during the primaries, they were dead against M4A or anything close to it. Kamala, at least, did a yo-yo deal where she raised her hand in favour of M4A in an early debate, then walked it back in interviews the next day. Meaning, she just wanted votes, and was willing to say anything in the moment to try and get them. In this sense, Biden was, ironically, the more principled one during the primaries (aside from lying a lot, as in his one on one debate vs Sanders).
I did attempt to “chase it down” and provided the same link you did.
>Biden sidesteps hard truths in first speech since quitting race BBC
While he said his accomplishments, which he listed in detail, merited a second term in office, he added that “nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy – and that includes personal ambition.”
There is an excellent summary of Jacques Ellul’s political philosophy at the link below. In it, it states that Democracy is an illusion, and until it is recognized as such, that the reality of “democracy,” in a technological modern society, a mass society, is impossible. Nothing will improve the conditions of the masses as long as this illusion holds sway. He points out that the more politicians talk about “democracy” and “saving” it, the more distance in realty are the conditions which would allow it to become possible.
Summary of The Political Illusion by Jacques Ellul
https://youtu.be/69svN4b4cW0?si=EmwRTSzqOetu240A
I see private equity is taking a well deserved beating here this morning.
>39% of Americans worry they can’t pay the bills CNN
As a result of current economic conditions, most Americans say they’ve had to cut back on spending on extras and entertainment (69%) and changed their grocery buying (68%), according to the CNN poll.
Yesterday when I went to buy some creamer for my coffee, the price of the one that doesn’t have a paragraph of ingredients was north of $6.00. I can afford it, but I didn’t buy it.
Some prices are now so high that I’ve changed my buying habits. Maybe it’s being raised in a household where there wasn’t much discretionary income. Some grocery items are so high that I refuse to buy them. I drank my coffee black in the past, and I drank it black this morning. I’m curious what the producers of some of these items are going to do when people just stop buying them.
The grocery chains are well aware this is happening, and they are responding. Some prices which were jacked up too far too fast have already started coming down.
In other cases, their solution is the usual tactic, to force you to buy more than you want. Major potato chips came down to 2 for $6 instead of 6 for one bag, because people were walking away. They still insist on getting $6 from you, which if you do that leaves less cash for other inflated goods in the store. I chose 0 for $0, like you did.
And their favorite new trick is to offer great deals to people who agree to walk around the store using their phone app. A lot of young people are broke enough and submissive enough to agree to this.
Hmm, chains here post “2 for $6″(yes sometimes requiring use of data-sucking store card/app), but when you buy 1 only it rings up as $3.
Olympics and COVID, say it ain’t so. My god these people either highly naive or just don’t give a sh*t as long as they can it was a success. Which they will regardless.
Just look at what happened with the Tour de France. COVID was everywhere. Riders started to mask again, to protect themselves, even before they reimposed pretty weak masking rules. At the Tour is outside.
Anyone wanna bet that athletes will get it, spread it, drop out, etc.?
Citius, Altius, Fortius, Infectus
Success of an olympics is measured in the velocity of money and the speed of filling coffers of insiders.
IOC have at least 70 words for money.
I will be tempted to watch some track and field events but hopefully my decision to not watch, a small and insignificant boycott as it were, will hold. I admire fine athletes but sorry guys and gals, the Olympics is a fraud and has been for a long time.
In the winter Olympics, its pretty much all about sticking the landing and i’m sure a lot of that goes on in the Olympic Village in indoor mixed double competition in the summer games, but it only seems to matter in gymnastics, diving and javelin events.
It’s a world of slaughter
A world of tears
It’s a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There’s so much that we’d rather not share
That it’s time we’re aware
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small, small country
There is just one chosen people who loom
They need more living room
And a Merkava means
Foreclosure to ev’ryone
Though the dogma divide
And to think we could live by the tide
Instead of side by side
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small country after all
It’s a small, small country
Given the music from Queen a spin this morning, whilst I file my daily TPS reports…all in the name of putting forth my effort for the good of humanity of course. If I don’t fulfill my daily tasks and deliverables, will anyone actually notice? Eh, probably not for one day…but I digress.
Their tune for Under Pressure could really be an applicable track for our modern America and an election year that presents varied but bleak options. Biden vs Trump! Eh just a sec…Harris ( presumed ) vs Trump. “Our Democracy!” Vs. “Orange Man + MAGA”!!
Patrick Lawrence, the Wreckage Biden Leaves. I recommend this article to you, brethren and sistren. It may seem like doom and gloom, but it is lucid and well argued. Now, it may be that Lawrence can more easily pile up the record of Biden’s personal and political failures than find something to praise him for. Biden as a moral disaster is easy pickings. And we can all say nice things at the wake.
Being a writer of wide culture, Lawrence makes these insights: “Biden took office four Januarys ago — remember the inauguration, with that dreadful poet and Garth Brooks bursting out of his jeans? — droning on and on about his dedication to national unity. Forget it. That was one of his more outsized Bidenisms. Joe Biden has put this nation so at odds with itself that he and his flaks have resorted to blaming it on the Russians, the Chinese and lately even the Iranians.”
And he is right, down to the hysteria about the Iranians and the sermonizing poetaster. (I don’t want to crap on another writer, but have you noticed her disappearance?)
Like alpha lyman blob, I do not eat popcorn. And I will defer by not passing the vitello tonnato today.
Pass the dakos!
I concur that is a must read and thankful he keeps it fairly tight, a nice summation of the Biden legacy. Many voters would find something to trifle with I’m certain. Look at his Cabinet, so diverse and reflection of America today….yeah about Pete Buttigieg or Secretary Mayorkas, just two examples where measured incompetence does not appear a deterrent in their ongoing roles. At times the sheer idiocy of the Biden administration public statements of policy wins and a great man legacy from the media are just overwhelming in the blind cheering. I’ll concede lowering the price level of insulin is a worthwhile effort. Or the proverbial or supposed fight against monopoly as well.
I’ll take a beer and some potato chips…if those items are available on a sale price for a comparative bargain of course.
Aha.
Private equity. Greed is good.
Gecko (although an awfully cute one from Crete)
Subtle.
I shed crocodile tears whilst playing a tiny violin for the greedy bastards of private equity. They’re only smart from all the winning, just always winning, but their loss* column only appears to be vacant, since we’re aware that any loss hits someone else (limited partners, pension plans) or the bankruptcy courts.
The economic pain of any past, present or future loss is due to unforeseen changes in the economy or in government policy. Nevermind a stacked deck, that typically features heavy fees ( oversight , management, bonuses ) plus newly generated debts.
Watching Netanyahu’s spiel to Congress yesterday, I was struck by the p-r-o-l-o-n-g-e-d applause, which reminded me of a story about how the first person to stop clapping at one of Stalin’s speeches was taken out and shot … “pour encourager les autres“. In the case of Netanyahu’s speech, the first CongressCritters™ to stop applauding might have put themselves at risk for being kicked off the AIPAC Gravy Train™.
The US Congress won the Olympic Gold Medal in Brown Nosing. Or is their discipline Lobby Transaction Processing?
Simply notice that the emperor’s new clothes are his skivvies and he is trimmed to his true dimensions. I know. I know. Money.Votes. AIPAC. Congress critters are essentially herd beasts. Sheeple. Supporting Israel does not mean approval of each and every action, each and every attitude. I saw this morning that as a courtesy visiting dignitaries have their clothes cleaned. Can it be true that Bibi and wife always bring suitcases full of dirty clothes? Would that not be an extreme of passive aggression? Your host is fit only to wash your dirty socks? But then Bibi appears to be that arrogant at the best of times.
NATO Grapples With a New Long Game Against Putin Foreign Policy
Anyone remember the Original Star Trek episode when, while traveling in deep space, the Enterprise enters a black floating blob? Upon entering, the blob begins sucking the energy out of every living and mechanical thing as it pulls it in closer to it’s center. And…the more they try reverse thrusters to get out, the greater and faster the pull towards the center becomes, and the faster they are drained of energy?
Then someone suggest a different approach – use their engines to thrust TOWARDS the center. And it works – they begin to slow the march towards the center, and the drain on their energy slows.
Every leader in The West might benefit from watching that Star Trek episode.
NATO Grapples With a New Long Game Against Putin…
Again, thank you for the important comments about the increased estimate of Russian GDP by the World Bank. The estimate makes sense and I expect the IMF will agree. The point, however, is that Russian economic productivity has been significantly underestimated by G7 countries.
Had Hiroshima-like mushrooms yesterday afternoon over the High Sierra, and it seemed as if all hell was gonna break loose, so my buddy and I turned into Cloudchasers headed east into Sequoia NP, and by the time we got to Giant Forest, they’d mostly dissipated into the ether.
I’ll grant that it isn’t the same gig as chasing tornadoes as all the action is turned around in that instead of coming down, massive columns of cloud reached 15,000 to 20,000 feet in the air.
>Trump shooter studied JFK assassination – FBI
Thomas Michael Crooks also managed to fly a drone around the rally site without being detected, Christopher Wray told Congress…
Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Wray said that an FBI examination of Crooks’ computer revealed that he began researching the JFK assassination on July 6, the same day he registered to attend the Trump rally.
“He did a Google search for – quote – ‘how far away was Oswald from Kennedy’,” Wray said, referring to Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunman accused of shooting Kennedy in 1963.
You have to appreciate Chutzpah of the FBI linking Crooks with Oswald, two lone gun men…yeah.
https://www.rt.com/news/601609-trump-shooter-jfk-fbi/
I guess the FBI hues to the official account like so many other implausible official narratives we hear almost daily. So yeah, two gun men acting alone.
In considering Crooks’ motives, I have to assume, unlike Oswald, suicide was one. Matt Farwell talks and writes about suicide by cop being a frequent choice of method among former service men. Crooks wasn’t in the services ofc but it does seem like a suicide by cop, among other things.
Our dad offered us each a grandido circa 1972 if we won an Olympic gold medal, and needless to say none of us collected the moolah, although I went to high school with somebody a grade higher who won an Olympic gold medal in Montreal when she was 16, as an honorable mention.
Fast forward to the mid 1980’s and I was at an auction in London and was the successful bidder on a 1908 London Olympics gold medal (18k, not the gold-plated junk they give out nowadays) that was awarded for pigeon shooting. (I sincerely hope said pigeons were of the clay variety)
I got home and drove over to my parents house and practically demanded the thousand bucks from Daddy Warbucks, but it was a no go, as I tested positive for cannabis.
Shirley Babashoff
Went to Fountain Valley myself, back in the day
I wouldn’t claim that Jill Sterkel looked manly like say an East German distaff swimmer in 1976, but she was certainly no shrinking violet.
>Branko Marcetic – An Untold History of Joe Biden’s Support for Israel
A worthwhile survey, I would add to his account of old dreadful Joe in his support for the brutal 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (a holocaust using Reagan’s own term).
Jeremy Scahill April 27, 2021: [emphasis added]
1982: Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
…
Doubly ironic, no? In 2018 Israeli snipers shot children in the knees, now they shoot them in the head. Biden got what he wanted after all.
The title should say:
Armenia’s Ministry of Defense will serve U.S. military representative.
P.S. Link is not working properly because of “\” at its end.
Same issue with the Heatstroke link
Yves, how is this not a Ponzi scheme? As I understand the term, new money pays off old, but this Bloomberg article describes PE doing exactly this; shuttling around debts to sell for meeting new obligations! What am I missing? Who regulates PE? What protections do investors have, lawsuits and futile attempts to recover from modern day incarnation of three-card monte?
Two years. 😁
A Belgium visitor walking into the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park severely burned his feet when he lost his shoes, according to a park release.
While the air temperature when the unidentified man headed into the dunes last weekend was around 123° Fahrenheit, park staff said “the ground temperature would have been much hotter…”
According to the release, the man had to be rescued “after suffering full-thickness burns on his feet.”
The man’s family called for help and recruited other park visitors who carried the man to the parking lot.
Park rangers determined the man needed to be transported to a hospital quickly due to his burns and pain level. Mercy Air’s helicopter was not able to safely land in Death Valley due to extreme temperatures, which reduce rotor lift. Park rangers transported the man in an ambulance to a landing zone at higher elevation, where the temperature was 109°F, and the man was flown to University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Rangers were not able to determine if his flip flops broke or were lost in sand.
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2024/07/hot-sand-burns-mans-feet-death-valley-national-park
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The Shoe Is The Sign from Life of Brian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9mfZbTFbk
Once he heals he’ll travel to Yellowstone to get a close up selfie with a bison.
> Rheinmetall officially receives order from Ukraine to build ammunition factory Ukrainska Pravda
I assume RF can, if it chooses, prevent production from the factory. So what is this? More transfers of money to Western arms makers?
We know that sending military equipment to be destroyed in UA serves that purpose because US politicians boast about it so it doesn’t seem a stretch that this is the same kind of thing.